The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I&#39;d be really happy. But without the brother thing.

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does.

Written By Joan Didion

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